The Old Truman Brewery is now internationally known as East Londons primary destination for the public and creative businesses alike. Twelve years of sensitive regeneration and investment has transformed over ten acres of vacant and derelict buildings into spectacular office, retail, leisure and unique event space. This finely tuned mix of business and leisure has created a unique environment where tenants and visitors enjoy all the benefits of a protected yet vibrant community...

"Fetishism, Russian folklore and culture, and Orthodox religion are the subjects explored and subverted in a new show by Russian-born London-based artist Karina Akopyan. Akopyan's Martyrs & Matryoshkas opens this week at London's Truman Brewery and features illustrations, self-portrait photography, sculptures and installations that use the iconography of Russia, like the matryoshka doll and peasant clothes, to explore and question Russian identity, religion, values and Akopyan's relationship to it all."

"After touring the world for the past three years, the outstanding exhibition Five Roads Back Home – showcasing the work of renowned German photographer Philipp Rathmer – finally came to London on 24 November.

Hosted at the iconic mid-Victorian Old Truman Brewery, which has been a leading art space in Brick Lane, London, for over two decades, the images feature a cross-section of some of the estimated one million Azerbaijani internally displaced persons (IDPs), The European Azerbaijani Society (TEAS) told APA."

"Opening on 25 November at The Truman Brewery and running until the 4 December, the Made Presents residency will highlight trends including soft seventies velvets, new Nordic neutrals and industrial metallics and aims to be a space where design lovers can cosy up and embrace Hygge, discover and be inspired."

"With the new series of MasterChef: The Professionals having began last night, next Monday (14th November) will see a unique, one-off event in which 11 of the programme’s previous finalists will take over the kitchen of The Frog E1... Opened earlier this year by 2013 finalist Adam Handling, The Frog E1 is one of Shoreditch’s most exciting restaurant openings of 2016. "

"Quaker Oats has set up shop with an Oat Café to hit home the fact we're coming into ‘Porridge Season’.
The campaign will remind consumers that the optimal window for porridge consumption (supposedly) lasts during the gloomy British winter, when the clocks go back between 30 October and 26 March."

"If school science lessons were like this, I'd have probably aced it.
In front of me are an array of whiskies, and it's my job to create my perfect blended Scotch.
I'm at Chivas Regal's pop-up at Shoreditch's Truman Brewery, hoping to conjure up a bottle of Roisin Reserve."

"CROSSROADS is a new international art show, from the organisers of the highly regarded Pinta Art Fair. It encompasses special curatorial projects and forty-six galleries from around the world handpicked by a team of renowned curators. This niche fair is fresh, multicultural and accessible. CROSSROADS presents the most current artistic trends in a relaxed and convivial setting."

"LDF is set to return and over the next few days we’re taking a look at some of the key events to look forward to in a series of previews. Next on the agenda is the newly rebranded London Design Fair.
To coincide with its tenth anniversary, this year Tent London and Super Brands London have been brought together under the new umbrella brand, London Design Fair."

"Old Truman Brewery will become an ‘Omnivore Family House’ for the weekend, inviting consumers to make themselves at home within the pop-up venue for chefs, bartenders and artisans. Across different levels, the family house includes a lounge area and bar with coffee, beers, spirits and a tasting space."

"You may well be getting regular deliveries from Abel and Cole, but now they're actually opening their own London restaurant (using their own produce, of course) - called Abel and Cole at the Brickhouse."

"Insert Coin’s store will give fans the first chance to buy the Pokémon range; created to celebrate the game’s 20 th anniversary. Designs feature Squirtle, Jigglypuff and Team Rocket to name but a few. The pop-up shop is located at Shop 8 (Dray Walk), The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL and will be open from August 25-30."

"Videogame-wear brand Insert Coin will unveil a Pokémon-themed pop-up shop at London's Old Truman Brewery on 25 August. The temporary experience will showcase Insert Coin's new Pokémon-themed line of clothing as well as some Pokémon memorabilia collected from across the brand’s 20-year history."

"Printers.
We're used to them giving us jam.
But now, apparently, they're printing entire menus. And a new popup restaurant is hitting London that serves literally only 3D printed food. It's called Food Ink, and it'll be heading to Shoreditch for three days at the end of this month."

"The Nap Station, launched by mattress brand Eve, is located at The Old Truman Brewery in East London and runs until 11 July.The station has already hosted a one-off talk from fitness and wellness expert Amy Hopkinson on how to adopt a healthier lifestyle."

"British Journal of Photography are pleased to announce the winners of BJP Breakthrough 2016, our annual search for the world's best student and graduate photographers...
The winning work will be exhibited at BJP's dedicated space at Free Range, the UK's largest creative graduate showcase from Friday 24th June - Monday 4th July 2016."

"It's Cancer is on exhibition as part of Exordium, a show by Falmouth University's BA Photography graduates at The Old Truman Brewery in London, from Friday June 24 until Monday June 27. Below are more of Johnny's photos from the series."

"Memory foam mattress company Eve Sleep are setting up a dedicated Nap Station in east London’s Old Truman Brewery this summer...available to use hourly between 16 June and 10 July, and is kitted out with power nap pods, beds from which to work, co-working spaces, free WiFi, charging points and good coffee."

"Graduates and visitors at Graduate Fashion Week in London’s Truman Brewery earlier this week were able to match their personalities with big fashion brands, thanks to technology company IBM’s supercomputer, Watson."

"The event took place from 25-26 May at the Truman Brewery, London, boasting a high-calibre of participants, including the British Fashion Council, Harrods, Marks & Spencer, the National Gallery and ASOS."

"London needs a proper advertising and design festival where people can come together, see the work, hear from the people who have done and judged it, be stimulated by talks from the giants of our industry, party, drink, argue and enjoy. And if this could all happen where the cutting-edge creative action is, in London E1 – well, that would be good too....get down to The Old Truman Brewery on 20-22 April for the D&AD Festival 2016 and be part of the creative event London needs and deserves."

"Now in its 16th year, Free Range returns to the Old Truman Brewery to showcase the breadth of work being produced by the UK’s emerging creatives – both to the public and to the creative industries on the lookout to find the best in up-and-coming talent."

"Nuria Stylianou meets (the) founder Isabelle Legeron to demystify the world of organic, biodynamic and natural wines…RAW WINE artisan wine fair, which runs at the Truman Brewery in east London this month."

"The UK is full of talented creative graduates — so wouldn't it be great if we could see all their works here in London.
Thanks to Free Range we can. It's an annual showcase of works by students in colleges and universities across the UK."

"Already a popular pursuit up in Manchester, now Junkyard Golf Club is bringing three wacky, 9-hole courses to London.
They will arrive at the Old Truman Brewery in May for a three-month takeover, bringing with them a series of obstacles never tackled before."

"Last month, I headed through to Design Butler‘s second solo exhibition entitled Replica at East London’s Old Truman Brewery. With the show being heavily buzzed about across Instagram and beyond, it was only right that we documented the occasion for those unfortunately unable to attend."

"In a departure from its usual fermented fare, Carlsberg has offered a new experience: A chocolate bar—that is, a drinking establishment made entirely out of chocolate.
The brewer built the edible edifice outside the Old Truman Brewery in London's Shoreditch neighborhood, disguising it as a billboard in the shape of a giant chocolate bar (the confectioner's kind), then unwrapping it to reveal the unusually sweet watering hole."

"After a successful move to The Old Truman Brewery in 2015, this year ‘Judging Week’ becomes the D&AD Festival where it claims it will bring ‘the worlds of advertising and design together over eight days to celebrate the best in global creativity’."

"March is Women's History Month; and on 8 March, International Women's Day aims to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, as well as raising awareness of the ongoing need to accelerate gender parity... Oxfam has teamed up with Magnum Photos to highlight the charity's work with women around the world — fighting poverty, combating violence against women and girls, and supporting women to gain their rights."

"Alex Daw, event director of the Spin cycling festival says he has secured "major investment" to run two shows this year, the existing one in London and one in Manchester... Spin takes place in Manchester's Victoria Warehouse, 6-8th May; and London's Old Truman Brewery, 20th-22nd May."

"DrinkUp.London Session IPA: Tropical fruited scents, with a hint of brown sugar and a dry fresh finish. Created by Melissa Cole and 40ft at Cotswold Brewing Co especially for #LBW16. Available at The DrinkUp.London Boilermaker Bar, The Old Truman Brewery, E1 6QL"

"The positive mood continued on the second day of menswear trade show Jacket Required, with brands praising the presence of “quality buyers” at the autumn 16 edition held at the Old Truman Brewery in East London."

"The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), has today been named as the official partner of the Craft Beer Rising beer festival in London.
The highly successful craft beer festival is now in its third year and has partnered with trade organisation SIBA, who represent Britain’s independent craft brewers, to deliver another fantastic event in the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, London."

"Given that we’ve all just turned our calendars over to that commercial month that boasts Christmas and new year’s eve, the timing for new wares is essentially spot on. Held at east London’s Old Truman Brewery – 7 Dray Walk, E1 – from Friday until Sunday (4th-6th December)"

"Thousands of people are taking part in Centrepoint’s annual Sleep Out at 12 events across the country tonight (Thurs), from 10pm to 7am tomorrow, including a sleep-out at Old Truman Brewery in Spitalfields."

"The Eric Gill Series was launched yesterday at an event at London’s Old Truman Brewery. Gill Sans Nova, designed by George Ryan, is a remastered version of Gill Sans with 25 new fonts, alternative characters, new weights originally commissioned as custom fonts and decorative styles from specimen books that weren’t previously available digitally."

"The competition was part of the Craft Distilling Expo, which was held at the Old Truman Brewery in Shoreditch, London, and saw industry boffins deemed the authority on gin gather to taste and pass judgement on the spirits."

"Syrian artist Tammam Azzam has found his own way of speaking out against the Syrian crisis. Using famous paintings from the Western world projected against bombed buildings, Azzam aims to “draw attention to the tragedy of Syria”."

"As we step into The Boiler House off East London's Brick Lane, James Michael Tyler's beaming face is the first thing we see — playing in a mildly hypnotic loop on a television set just inside the entrance."

"Graduate fashion week 2015 ushers in a new wave of designers...Eccentric high-end looks and commercial lines from the latest generation of emerging talent hit the runways for the industry event’s 24th year"

"To highlight the potential of the emerging technology in the food world, organisers of the 3D Printshow in London have tapped a Michelin-starred chef to create a meal composed entirely of 3D printed foods."

"In partnership with Free Range... each of the four winners will now exhibit their work at a dedicated BJP pop-up space at The Old Truman Brewery, East London as part of the Free Range Graduate Shows in June 2015."

"We’ve just heard that Ely’s Yard — the big creative space behind the Truman Brewery where you can drink beer and eat street food all afternoon — is hosting a “non-restaurant restaurant” called Deluxe for one month only, starting tomorrow."

"We have 130 artists, including exclusive work from Polly Morgan, an immersive theatre experience, a bar from CRATE Brewery, A pop-up restaurant from Soho House's Dirty Burger, a Kids Treasure Hunt and the best coffee in town from Monkshood Cafe."

"It’s all very well being part of an “underground” movement so cutting edge that only hipsters have heard of you. But even street artists need to make a living. And an increasingly popular means for “graffers” to make one is to sell the tags and stencils that otherwise emblazon our walls and pavements for free to well-heeled art collector types via the Moniker Art Fair."

"Shinebright Studio, run by Glacéau Vitaminwater, is a pop-up space that will see musicians, fashion designers, filmmakers and more established creatives offer inspiring mentoring sessions to young people over the summer."

Apparently this Friday The Old Truman Brewery was the place to be. DF Mexico continues to fill it's seats every lunch time and evening with the hungry herds of East London. Check it out if you haven’t had the pleasure yet…

"And one London event is fast becoming a mecca for them all. Crepe City, founded by trainer (or ‘crepe’) fanatic friends Ronal Raichura and Paul Smyth in 2009, is a collector’s dream: a day-long sale designed to let shoppers get their hands on some seriously hard to find footwear."

"This year Cass Art organised Free Thinking, a series of free talks for art students and graduates at Free Range 2014, to arm them with the knowledge they need to make a success of themselves in the art industry."

Welcoming back some old friends from the UK's top Photography courses, this year's second week of Photography was a real highlight of Free Range's seven week season. A lovely selection from Creative Review online.

With the end of Free Range 2014, The Old Truman Brewery is feeling somewhat quiet. This years Free Range took over nearly every wall with some outstanding works from it's Graduates spanning the entire UK.

"Adam Parry, co-founder of Event Tech Live explains: “We looked at a number of potential venues for Event Tech Live and as soon as we saw the Old Truman Brewery the entire team felt we had found the right venue."

"GRADUATE Fashion Week relocated this year - heading East amid the buzz and bustle of London's eclectic and fashionable Brick Lane. While fashion shows from a host of colleges took place inside the Old Truman Brewery, the market and streets outside became their own catwalks as the nation's fashion students descended upon the capital."

Phoebe Lettice moves on from Made In Chelsea with her new collection for Illustated People. Shot on our F Block Rooftop, we think this collection screams today's 90's, No Doubt, Grunge approach to style. We love it.

A preview of what we can expect from this year's design talent. Here we have a selection of students work portrayed in a collection of truly stunning and impressive images in our atmospheric, industrial Rooftop.

"The move to the Old Truman Brewery marks a new era for graduate fashion in the heart of one of London's most vibrant, creative areas. The location is sensational and the space allows us to expand the workshop and atelier areas of the exhibition, as well as showcase the graduate collections on some very cool catwalks."

The pop-up, ‘Defected Records’, is a house lovers dream, As well as selling a full range of Defected’s new merchandise, it will also allow exclusive access to it’s catalogue of music, ranging from the very beginning, right up to present day.

The London Coffee Festival celebrates London’s bustling and vibrant coffee scene. With over 20,000 visitors expected, The London Coffee Festival promises to be an unmissable event for discerning coffee lovers and those working in the coffee scene.

Focusing on innovation and elegance, Alfie Douglas is an exclusive leather accessory label made in England for men and women that expresses contemporary and minimalistic design with traditional British concepts of craftsmanship.

Check out images from their latest Pop Up Shop and new collection at Truman Brewery on the Alfie Douglas Pinterest and Tumblr pages.

"Our products are original. They are simple visually and in the way that they are made. Ingenious in the way that they can be adapted and customised in their function. Each one is different, singular, made by hand to be reliable and sustainable."

Lulu has an eclectic style and epitomises London cool. Often referred to as the British fashion industry’s “fairy godmother” for her knack of taking unknown designers and turning them into fashion stars, Lulu is editor-at-large of British fashion magazine LOVE and runs Fashion East, a non-profit venture that mentors young British designers. Her former protégés include House of Holland, Simone Rocha and Jonathan Saunders. She has been a big factor in the evolution of London Fashion Week, making it a must-see event.

Spin LDN hosts an eclectic range of entertainment over an action packed weekend. Visitors can expect tales of epic rides from noted former cyclists, talks from designers whom may influence the future of cycling such as Foster&Partners, designers of the fascinating, futuristic Sky-cycle!

Fashion East chose the pitt stop to host a party to celebrate the season and invite their extended network to sample the new menu at the adjacent Shrimpy's restaurant. After an al fresco viewing of Matt Dillon in "Drugstore Cowboy" with boxes of chocolate raisin popcorn, we sat down to a spicy three course feast with Hibiscus Martinis. It was one of those gorgeous rare warm city evenings and rare chances to catch up with everyone in one room at one time - especially to find out news such as Agi & Sam's impending capsule collection with Top Shop.......... another great Fashion East success story to toast to!

EW Agency launch 'I Love Talent' which exists to showcase current and up & coming artists’ work that deserves to be shouted about. You can either use it as a simple online gallery or as a resource, to find new talent for your next project.

Combining some of the most important things in life: eating, keeping healthy and music; L!FE Shoreditch intends to bring a fresh approach to hosting. The site will combine life's necessities, in the form yoga and pilates; with life's treats, in the form of great cocktails and party pumping music. Spread over three floors, there will plenty of space to ensure no one activity impedes any other. So whether you are hungry, thirsty, or in need of a good work out or boogie, L!FE has it all.

Danny Boyle's Trance was almost exclusively shot in London and with the production in close proximity to the east of the city, Brick Lane's Truman Brewery proved to be the obvious choice to film the cityscape with its accessible rooftop with a view which evoked the desired atmosphere.

FASHION East alumni of the past have flown the nest and are now out and about hogging their own limelight on the London Fashion Week schedule - and right now it feels like there's a real new lease of life, new blood, over at the Fashion East stable.

Check out the Animation created by Pablo Jones-Soler & Bradley Bell for Illustrated People.
I worked on the collection for Illustrated People’s Spring/Summer 13 collection focusing
heavily on digital printed Sweatshirts. The animation was inspired by
“Superstudio, Archizoom’s No Stop City, Dubai, spas, Brave New World, and general decadence.”

They say that fashion is all about fantasy, so it's very fitting that Lulu Kennedy's class of bright sparks each took us to their own personal dream world at the Fashion East Autumn/Winter 2013 installation.

Next time you go shopping in New York City, apart from seeing our product range in the uber-eclectic ABC Home, you might also notice MUMO in Anne Taylor boutiques across the city. In fact, MUMO pillows are now decorating Anne Taylor boutiques across the whole of the US!

Frankenweenie is a visually stunning black and white, stop-motion animated film in 3D and is the first animated film that Tim Burton has directed for Disney.
In conjunction with Disney and agency Digital Outlook, yellowBird were commissioned to create experiential interactive Surround Video footage of behind-the-scenes activities led by key production members including Producer Allison Abbate and Tim Burton himself.

Craft beer is on the rise. A younger, more discerning consumer is turning to the category and a plethora of new brands are being created or imported to appeal to them. Set in the grounds of the Old Truman Brewery, Craft Beer Rising is a trade show and consumer craft beer festival that showcases the World’s greatest brews.At The Old Truman Brewery, 22nd & 23rd of February.

Instagrammers London is exhibiting in Truman Brewery 12-16th of December. Read about the rise of mobile phone photography and Instagrammers in The Guardian's article and dig deep in to how instagram went from candid snapshots to sleek ad campaigns and everywhere in between.

Born at a time when fashion designers used their collections to make political statements, the DIY ethos and post-punk aesthetic of Red or Dead hit a chord. To mark their 30 year anniversary, the House of Red or Dead is taking a trip down memory lane via its archives in a new exhibition at The Truman Brewery.

This weekend one of the 80's and 90's most successful fashion labels, Red or Dead, hosts an exhibition in Dray Walk Gallery in The Old Truman Brewery. Click on the link to read about the company's founder Wayne Hemingway, also referred to as "The Godfather of social design".

Read Karim Flint's great review of Edge of Arabia's Exhibition in the Old Truman Brewery. "Like many of us I’ve spent the last two years fascinated by the events of the Arab Spring, what it meant for the region and the world. But tonight, for the first time, I felt a connection to the people whose lives are being changed by these momentous events. I was moved."

Red or Dead are holding a free exhibition at The Dray Walk Gallery, part of the Old Truman Brewery, to celebrate three decades of their styles. Visitors will get the chance to clap eyes on real classic pieces, attendees will also be able to get a sneak peek of their up-to-date special edition ‘Pearly Collection’

The Independent's food columnist Samuel Muston Went to The Red Cottage hosted by Visit Sweden in the Old Truman Brewery earlier this week. Read about his first encounter with a Swedish Lappland reindeer. On a plate.

Next week, eleven new graphic artworks, each by a different image maker, will go on display at London's Dray Walk Gallery in the form of one-off, hand woven rugs. Take a sneak peak at the works going on display at CreativeReview.

After the huge success of their first fundraising event ‘Inspired,’ the collaborative duo have organised a creatively charged night of up-and-coming ethical designers, musicians, performers and artists. They are all coming together to raise money and promote the works of Mayamiko Trust, as well as showcase their amazing artistic talents at Corbet Place in the Old Truman Brewery.

Pudsey Joins The Fash Pack With The Help Of Giles Deacon, Henry Holland And More:
In anticipation of the collection, Grazia Daily cuddled up with Katie Grand along with Henry Holland, Patrick Grant and Giles Deacon to talk about these fantastical bears and the project. The childish gleam in their eyes shows the fun they had with the project, and we hope that glow will raise a lot of funds for the Children in Need.

Read the UpComing's article about Brendan Fan and Ruth Williams who are the creative geniuses behind I Am Acrylic. The pair have a regular market stall at Sunday Upmarket, just off Brick Lane. Come check it out.

Last night at The Truman Brewery, Shepard Fairey hosted the private viewing of his new exhibition at Stolen Space.
Entitled "Sound & Vision" (taken from a David Bowie song), the show explores how these media interact to evoke an emotional response in the viewer and features a lot to see with over 80 artworks. StreetArtNews gives us all a sneak peak, take a look!

VisitSweden is set to transform East London’s Truman Brewery into a traditional ‘Red Cottage’ to showcase Sweden’s artisanal produce from the regions of West Sweden, Skåne and Luleå in Swedish Lappland, bringing a taste of Sweden to London this autumn. The three-day pop-up will feature a bookable and free lunch time between 12pm – 2pm on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th October.
The ‘Red Cottage’, a dramatic reconstruction of the traditional red & white cottages found all over Sweden, will be transformed every day to showcase each of the three regions and their menus.

Pete Townshend: songwriter, composer and lead guitarist in one of the most exciting live rock bands in the world, The Who, will be talking about his eagerly awaited memoir – Who I Am, in The Boiler House at The Old Truman Brewery tonight.

Rather than an oil painting of an Arab stallion in a desert — a staple of Saudi art until recently — the work is a towering, four-meter-wide replica of the dome of the U.S. Capitol with an interior done up to look like a mosque, with the whole structure balanced precariously over black panels resembling a sea of oil. It is the centerpiece of #ComeTogether, an exhibition of contemporary art from across the Islamic World that is now open in The Truman Brewery on Brick Lane.

When talking to entrepreneurs about getting their start-ups off the ground, success often comes down to the team. At the Silicon Milkroundabout job fair, hosted in The Truman Brewrery, several of the start-ups plan and aim to pick up a developer or two at the Silicon Milkroundabout.

Celebrating 10 season with Giles Deacon.
Each season Giles showcases a new collection with an army of inspirations- our favourites including gothic disco, dinosaurs and Jacobean house-fires. Each with Giles’ signature twist of taking something unusual and creating an almost-overwhelming beauty.

Saudi Arabian Sarah Al Abdali has been branded as one of Saudi’s first street artists. Currently she is showcasing her work at Edge of Arabia's #cometogether exhibition in The Truman Brewery. Click on the link to hear her talk about her work.

Scott Campbell’s new sculpture series, They Say Miracles are Past, should be seen in person to be appreciated. The exhibition of 15 pieces that together articulate the varying phases of the moon opens tonight at OHWOW’s pop-up gallery in The Truman Brewery, East London.

The London exhibition, held in The Truman Brewery, weaves together art, music, and politics in a series of mixed media pieces inspired by Bowie, as well as the likes of the Sex Pistols, The Clash, the Circle Jerks, Kraftwerk, Public Enemy, and Metallica.

Fashion Foie Gras re-discovers Brick Lane and the markets at the Old Truman Brewery. "People buy food from market stalls and have no problem sitting on the pavement to eat together; musicians set up shop on street corners and entertain the folks dining al fresco...It's a complete mix of people, trends and cultures"

"In a country that likes art to be safe and its artists even safer, a surprising tendency: a new generation of edgier artists is pushing Saudi Arabia into the contemporary art world." Come visit Edge of Arabia's latest exhibition #ComeTogether, in The Truman Brewery.

Stephen Stapleton is the mind behind Edge of Arabia, hosted in The Old Truman Brewery, opening the 6th of October. Listen to his thoughts and how he hopes to shed a broader sense of light on Arabian art and its relevant creatives in this film clip.

claire barrow, Ryan Lo and Maarten van der Horst were the names leading the Fashion East line-up this season - the two former hosting presentations on the way in, while the latter held court on the catwalk. For those that like their glitter, frou-frou and girliness, it was to the left (Ryan Lo); and for those that like their punk spirit, it was to the right (Claire Barrow). And for those that like the mundane - his words, not ours - but revamped, it was dead ahead and up the stairs for Van der Horst, for whom it's his third season showing with the Fashion East contingent.

Tent London runs from 20 – 23 September in the cavernous Old Truman Brewery near Brick Lane. This year’s event features five feature installations by architects, artists and curators that will run across Tent and sister event Superbrands

Nelson’s Column was recently given a Union Jack flag make-over courtesy of Eve as part of the Hatwalk event arranged by Blonstein & Associates and commissioned by the Mayor of London as part of the London 2012 festival.

Tent London at the Old Truman Brewery invited experts Global Color Research, the publishing house of Mix Magazine and Mix Trends color forecasting book, to curate an inspirational trend and color installation throughout the halls of this years exhibition. See what they came up with!

For those for whom a Sunday afternoon involves hurling themselves towards the ground with but a stretch of elastic between them and face-planting into the ground – Old Truman Brewery and new video game Borderlands 2, has something for you on Sunday...

Canadian pianist Chilly Gonzales (real name Jason Charles Beck) played an intimate gig at Rough Trade East last Friday to promote his new album Solo Piano II. Discreetly starting his set at the back of East London’s famous hipster music store

Galvanised by Tent and Superbrands, as well as untold small exhibitions and events, you’d be a fool not to head east this LDF. Tent London runs from 20 – 23 September in the cavernous Old Truman Brewery near Brick Lane. This year’s event features five feature installations by architects, artists and curators that will run across Tent and sister event Superbrands, which launched last year.

To celebrate this month's London Design Festival, we have teamed up with Ercol and Tent London, one of the biggest design trade shows of the festival, to give away this classic Ercol Windsor easy chair, worth £1,195

Barney Hoskyns's oral history Trampled Under Foot: The Power & Excess of Led Zeppelin is published by Faber & Faber on 6 September. A special Led Zeppelin night featuring Barney Hoskyns and special guests takes place on Thursday 13 September at 7pm at Rough Trade East, Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL

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Charlotte Church's transition from operatic child star that took the wold by storm to rock chick is finally complete.
The 26-year-old Welsh star performed an intimate concert to promote her latest EP one at London's Rough Trade East record store.

Interview magazine described Lulu Kennedy as “the patron saint of British fashion,” and that’s not far off the mark. No matter where you turn in London, Ms. Kennedy, the founder of an incubator program called Fashion East, is hustling for young designers. She has helped many of them, like Richard Nicoll, J. W. Anderson, Jonathan Saunders and Gareth Pugh, become better known through showrooms and runway sponsorships. In April, Love magazine signed her on as an editor at large. Sure, everybody’s all about supporting young designers these days, but Ms. Kennedy has helped so many that she actually put a city back on the fashion map.

Fashion East has a high profile and 10 year track record in the industry for launching future stars; scouting and working with some of the most exciting new designers and thus directly contributing to London’s reputation as the epicentre for creativity. “Fashion East is such a reliable next-big-thing barometer that it's no longer an off-schedule quirk but one of the official LFW schedule's hottest tickets” Style.com

East London-based label Illustrated People’s carved out a fine niche in quality, hand-printed urban luxe streetwear in collaboration with the world’s most-hyped illustrators – and now you can be one of them.

Katie Price and Leandro hit the rocks !
Model and boyfriend scramble up climbing wall for new crisp launch.
The model was seen hanging around at a launch event for Walkers' Deep Ridged crisps.
And, although she wasn't keen on the challenge at first, she rose to the adventure of climbing to the top of the man-made wall in Brick Lane, along with Amir Khan and Gary Lineker.

Sinara to Deliver Hosted Solutions from Interxion’s London Data Centre Campus. Greg McCulloch, UK Managing Director at Interxion, added: “Sinara’s decision to deliver their services from our City of London data centre campus is not only a validation of the benefits of our Financial Hub, but also increases the value Interxion can offer to its financial community.

Victoria Beckham wows at Olympics closing ceremony. Victoria Beckham stayed true to her "Posh" image in a stunning black gown as she performed at the Olympic closing ceremony with the Spice Girls.
The singer-turned-fashion-designer - who is famed for her Posh Spice moniker - chose a sexy yet sophisticated strapless frock by Giles Deacon for what is believed to be the final performance of the five-piece.

John Simpson and Lucy Bannerman
...as (Usain Bolt) he took over the decks to play a DJ set at the Puma Yard, in Shoreditch, East London. Bolt partied with...Yohan Blake, Warren Weir and Asafa Powell inside the Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane.Outside, fans clamoured to get in to...

This summer MUMO exclusively launches its new tableware range at The Lollipop Shoppe, Spitalfields London. Ex-collaborator with HAY and retail partner with design led brands including Vitra and Muuti. Having sold out of our Sao Paulo collection after their first order these LOVELY people have given us a wee space in their Spitalfields store during this summer’s festivities. Go check them out at the London shop or in Brighton.

Kings of cool ‘Snakeskin Jacket’ left the Truman Brewery for one night only and kitted out the Cuckoo club with peacock feathers, lace curtains and other items essential to any self-respecting Wild West Brothel.

Truman Brewery Tenant 'New Love Club' is harking back to the spirit of the graphic t-shirts’ hay-day, yet still managing to put a contemporary spin on it to ensure relevance in today’s market. Self-proclaimed ‘modernists’, New Love Club designs feature hand-drawn graphics alongside a range of manipulated photographs, eye-catching geometric shapes and retro-inspired images, all woven in with amateur women and abstract art.

The design world is already gearing itself up for the London Design Festival 2012. One of the best elements of the event, I think, is Tent – where emerging and less mainstream designers air their wares in the Truman Brewery, in east London's Brick Lane.

Despite the textiles industries turbulent history of unethical trade and manufacturing processes and the current recessionary times, beautiful, design-led brands like the completely fresh soft-furnishings brand, Mumo are making a point of pioneering fair-trade practices and sustainable supply chains to fashion their inimitable collections.

Artist Graham Hudson has filled a gallery in East London with photography captured on the Nintendo 3DS.
The Loading Bay Gallery in the Old Truman Brewery, just off Brick Lane, was filled with 3D photos captured by the 3DS' twin cameras and displayed on its glasses-free screen.
The gallery was enhanced with Hudson's trademark scaffolding taking something that's usually used outside of buildings and bringing it inside the gallery.

"I've been working in this area [Brick Lane] since 1996," says Kennedy, who also runs her own fashion line, Lulu & Co, featuring designs from Fashion East alumni. "When I first came, there was nothing but a bagel shop and a couple of curry houses."
These days, she finds herself at the centre of a creative community, surrounded by young designers, many of whom Kennedy talent-spotted as young graduates.

Yesterday we headed over to the Truman Brewery in Brick Lane to trawl several acres of warehouse space looking for the best work at the raft of photography degree shows hosted by Free-Range. Colleges represented included Swansea Metropolitan University, UCA Farnham, Nottingham Trent, University of West England, and Stevenson College Edinburgh

Thanks to the Internet and hordes of very enthusiastic fashion kids, we are no longer the only ones who worship Fashion East, the London organization for emerging style talent that's brought us Henry Holland, Gareth Pugh, and Simone Rocha

For those of you whom graduate art doesn’t begin and end with the London Institute, head on down to the mammoth Free Range (the UK’s largest graduate art, design and fashion show), housed in just about every corner of the epic Truman Brewery.

BJP was invited to Photography Weeks One and Two to pick out two Best in Show prizes. Week One was held from 14-18 June and Tania Olive fought off stiff competition to pick up the title, with a project called 'Dyke of Our Time'

PUMA® Unveils plans for the PUMA YARD brand experience in London at the Boiler house on Brick Lane during the Global Games.
PUMA’s Jamaican-Themed Destination Brings Free Entertainment, Shopping and Sports Concept to Brick Lane, London for 17 Days and Nights. During the 17 days of operation, PUMA YARD will host a list of DJs, Club nights as well as live performances sure to get the crowd on their feet.

Palfreyman Power are delighted to announce that on Dec 16th 2011 we signed our latest Design and Build contract for the turnkey delivery of Interxion’s London 2.0, an 8 MVA data centre comprising approx 25,000 sq ft and forming part of the Interxion London HQ, and housed within Brick Lane’s Old Truman Brewery.
It marks the next chapter in a long and fruitful relationship between Palfreyman and Interxion and illustrates our clients commitment to remain at the forefront of the Industry’s growth and reward its clients with innovative and continued levels of excellence.
London 2.0 will be delivered by summer 2012.

This (Free Range 2012) is the biggest show for graduates of art and design in Europe so you can expect to discover some exceptionally promising emerging talents if you visit. For those inspired to learn more, a series of workshops and talks run alongside the main exhibitions.

exhibitors preparing for the first ABTT Theatre Show to be held at the Old Truman Brewery in East London, many are taking the opportunity to demonstrate new products to the technical theatre community.

Fashion East Menswear Installations
Selected by the Fashion East panel, around 10 up and coming menswear designers present their collections using a combination of static exhibits, live models and multimedia. Past installations have included a bus shelter, a boxing ring, live bands and a speakeasy.
Installation
17 June 2012
12:00 - 18:00

Attending the A Celebration Of The Arts event, at the Royal Academy of Arts, more than 850 of the country’s top creatives were accompanied by their muses, helped get the Jubilee off to a flying start.Giles Deacon was among the carefully selected guests chosen to meet the Queen last night,his muse sported his Swan helmet for the event.

Truman Brewery Newcomers YellowBird have been invited by Germany based La Red to join forces with them and Innocean for KIA. A concept based on 360 degree video was chosen for the new KIA C’EED launch campaign in Europe.

Car-boot Hoot:
More than 70 top British artists and collectives - including Peter Blake, Tracey Emin and Pam Hogg - drew a crowd of thousands to the ninth annual Vauxhall Art Car-boot Fair at the Old Truman Brewery

Competition for top IT talent was as hot as the weather outside as more than 100 start-up companies gathered at the Old Truman Brewery in East London over the weekend for the Silicon Milkroundabout jobs fair.

Topman and Fashion East announce MAN designers. Menswear labels Agi & Sam, Astrid Andersen and Shaun Samson are set to show at London Collections: Men in June as part of MAN, the Topman and Fashion East menswear show.

Whether you’re looking to quaff some environmentally friendly vino, keen to sample something dramatically different than that same old Tesco pinot grigio or you’re simply curious about what might just be the next big thing in viticulture, Raw takes place at the Old Truman Brewery, London

The BFC is now enjoying its first experience of Europe, with a solo exhibition through the end of the month at East London’s renowned Old Truman Brewery, an area that has become a kind of hall of fame for a host of celebrated mainstream artists: Banksy, D*face, Shepard Fairey, JR, ROA—many of whom inspired the BFC to start working in the medium.

acquaint yourself with the cutting edge of caffeine this weekend at The London Coffee Festival at the Old Truman Brewery. The event will have London’s top baristas, a multitude of tastings and some far-out experiments. There’ll also be ethical debates and tips to open your own cafe.

Celebrating Start-Ups: PLA Studios.
PLA is one of a number of small businesses and start-ups that inhabit the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane. The complex, which is close to Allen Gardens, houses over 250 businesses in the former brewery’s warehouses and yards. According to Lacey, the fact that there were other like-minded businesses and, importantly, potential clients not only in the area, but in the same building, is the primary reason PLA chose to set up shop in the Brewery.

After launching his first nail polish range last Autumn, Giles Deacon is launching a complete makeup collection that includes everything you'll need to keep you glowing this Summer, from bronzers to smoky metallic eye palettes.

Celebrity favourite BOY London label is back in town !
Currently, Rihanna, Jessie J, Natalia Kills and Cher Lloyd are doffing their BOY baseball caps in honour of a British fashion institution by wearing the label in their latest videos, helping expose the brand to a new generation.

LBi was recognised last night for the online platform that the agency’s New York team designed and built in partnership with Americans Elect, a movement that harnesses the ubiquitous and collaborative nature of the web to empower the American people to nominate their own choice for president.

Playing pop music via postcards with Bare Paint!
The Listening Post is a paper poster that plays song clips via printed electronics. Paper posters that play music via printed circuits made with conductive ink have been unveiled.

Skylark was commissioned by e-Skills to redesign the identity and extend their reach to this group. e-Skills UK aims to engage and encourage the youth to explore careers in IT and the brand needed to clearly communicate they array of progressive opportunities. Skylark kept the typeface clean and simple diverting interest to the background.

The MyDish site is a popular recipe and cooking social network. Home to thousands of recipes and an active community it is often described as "Facebook for foodies".
On the 26th of January 2012 Carol Savage, MD and founder of the social network MyDish, will be at the LAR Consultancy’s Kol Chai Business Club discussing the challenges of growing an online business in an ever-changing and increasingly competitive market.

Hardy East Enders are in training for next week’s Great Spitalfields pancake race on Shrove Tuesday. Teams of four can enter the relay being staged at The Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, starting at 12.30pm.

Producers specializing in fine, organic and biodynamic wine are coming together this May at the Old Truman Brewery to host artisan wine fair RAW. The two-day celebration of some of the best natural wine talent will feature around 150 growers.

Topshop: A Decade Of Design:
When London Fashion Week starts on Friday, Topshop will celebrate 10 years backing its brightest young stars, says Rebecca Gonsalves.
Known for her bright and bold textural experimental designs, Louise Gray first received Topshop's backing through Fashion East – another initiative which provides two to three seasons of support straight from the MA programmes of London colleges.

Interxion Strengthens its Financial Community with Infront
STOCKHOLM, 17 January 2012 INTERXION HOLDING NV, (NYSE: INXN), a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that Infront, a leading provider of real-time market data and electronic trading solutions, has chosen to house its solutions at Interxion’s Stockholm data centre and City of London data centre , in order to provide its financial customers with faster connectivity to exchanges and key liquidity venues.

The ecological savvy duo of Tobin Prinz and Suzi Horn better known as Prinzhorn Dance School, follow up their almost entirely recyclable debut album at the end of this month with Clay Class, and have today announced they will play a headline show at London’s 93 Feet East

Truman Brewery Based Fashion designer extrodinaire Giles Deacon has once again partnered with New Look, but this time to launch a range of beauty products. The nail wraps are one of many products, but come in the quirky designs and colours we've come to know and love from the designer. Strange animal-print-come-houndstooth and stripey-fuzzy-zigzag, these certainly aren't for the faint hearted.

As the world visits London for the 2012 Olympics, visitors will encounter recent changes, including the revitalization of the East End. Its Brick Lane was once an industrial artery, then home to Bangladeshi immigrants and curry shops, and is now a favored haunt of bohemians and creative types. On Sundays, it fills with shoppers and browsers.

Truman Brewery's designer extraordinaire 'Giles Deacon' was presented looks from his spring 2012 collection at the Thompson Toronto on Nov. 3, part of a lunchtime fundraiser for Princess Margaret Hospital.

Volkswagen (VW) is rolling out its biggest UK social-media campaign to date to promote the 35th anniversary of its 'hot hatch' Golf GTI. VW launched the campaign last month with a live event staged at the Truman Brewery in East London.

We all know them, the dance floor divas who seem to have confused Cargo with Britain’s Got Talent, or taken a night in the Jazz Bar to be an audition for a re-run of Soul Train. Well, now there’s a place for them: podium posers, step this way – The Old Truman Brewery is hosting Absolut Blank Live, a sort of high-tech boogie-booth for the statically-challenged.

World's first temporary mall Boxpark chooses Truman Brewery based PR agency 'Canoe' for support.
Canoe's remit is both trade and consumer PR for Boxpark's own brand and the brands of the companies that run shops in the mall.

Truman Brewery based design agency 'So Creative' Do it again !
Following the success of their packaging redesign for Green’s kids range, SO Creative were delighted to be asked to rebrand Green’s itself and roll it out over their entire home baking range consisting of 24 products.

The old Truman Brewery in East London was buzzing yesterday as hundreds of programmers and software engineers jostled with startup founders to look for jobs. Some of the candidates were graduates, while others were coders already toiling for banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, but eager for work that put them closer to real consumers.

Fashion East goes west !
Future top designers reinforce Hackney’s mark on the world of fashion. Fashion East, a not-for-profit initiative based at the Old Truman Brewery and set up in 2000 by Lulu Kennedy, offers a spotlight for new talent from across the city and is used as a platform to showcase designers who are not based in the conventional west end, high-end marketplace. Many of today’s biggest British names – from Gareth Pugh to Holly Fulton – had their careers ignited by Fashion East.

This weekend further proved Brick Lane’s credentials as a discerning foodie’s paradise when The Old Truman Brewery, best known for holding a vibrant market for up-and-coming designers, opened its doors to the rather exotic Experimental Food Society.

Gulf visitors to the UK capital are increasingly being drawn to the city’s east side including Brick Lane, for vintage clothing, some great cafes and restaurants, the Old Truman Brewery and Sunday Up market

American Apparel Flea Market
After last year's riotous rummage sale, American Apparel's 'flea market' was a much more organised affair this time around. The event, which kicked off on Thursday, saw £35,000 spent on security and crowd control. The sale, which runs over five days in the Old Truman Brewery in east London, was chiefly promoted through Facebook. We find out what made people queue from 7am. (Hint: it's not just spandex)

Truman Brewery based post production company 'postmen' produce outstanding shots for All Saints. 'Visit the AllSaints website at www.allsaints.com to see it graced by Postmen work, the black and white ones at least.'

Tent London is one of the largest design trade shows taking place during the London Design Festival each September. Now in its 5th year and situated at the Old Truman Brewery, it presents over 200 exhibitors from 26 countries, showcasing the latest in contemporary interior products – including furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles and accessories. There will also be shows and gallery events featuring digital and art installations, making the showcase an experience in itself.

Should you be so blasé as to think that Heston Blumenthal and El Bulli haven’t gone far enough in their gustatory experiments, and that bacon meringues and buttered nitrogen are as old hat as a can of Heinz baked beans, then book now for the Experimental Food Society’s Spectacular, to be held on Friday and Saturday at the Truman Brewery, London E1

MovieScore Media is excited to announce their action-packed CD release of Truman Brewery based producer Dominik Scherrer's stirring orchestral music from the popular dinosaur adventure series Primeval.

Truman Brewery tenant Sardinian Treasure launch their new KOKKU range. KOKKU will also be opening its doors to the press from 4pm to 8pm every day between Monday, October 10 and Saturday, October 15.
Following these series of events KOKKU will hold private parties at different venues between the 19th and 23rd of October.

The Experimental Food Society, the group behind the event, are not just a one-show wonder.
They hold meetings and talks throughout the year to look at why food is such an expressive medium and how to push the boundaries further.
For the seasoned Truman Brewery troupe, the event is a way to celebrate cutting edge culinary experimentation.

The 'only' jobs fair for the London start-up community to bring graduates and tech talent from the City. The event will take place on Sunday 30th October between 11am to 5pm at The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane; London.

Czech design graduate Jan Plechac has put his "Icons" range on show at Tent London this week. By wire-framing a number of design classics including the De Stijl Red & Blue chair and Fat Boy bean bag Plechac attempts to take the homely qualities of indoor furniture to the outdoors—bringing into question the boundaries between interior and exterior furniture.

We were definitely intrigued by "Move-It" furniture, on show at Tent London. Made entirely out of heavy duty cardboard—the lightweight tables and chairs even incorporate cardboard rollers to make the furniture as mobile as possible. Whether the "Move-It" range will withstand more than five minutes of use is yet to be seen, but this certainly could be an idea that impacts on the cheap furniture market.

“Hmmm… I love the second hand record shops frequented by wonderfully eccentric characters that you’ll find in New York and Berlin. Monorail in Glasgow is an amazing record shop too. Closer to home I think Plug’d in Cork are doing things right. A great little shop! I think Rough Trade East in London pretty much writes the book as the model for a thriving record shop though.

Junky Styling, in the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, features second-hand clothes that have been completely re-fashioned into hip, original pieces. Browse on a Sunday and take in the Brick Lane and Old Spitalfields Markets as well.

Silicon Milkroundabout, the start-up job fair which debuted on 15 May 2011 as the most practical answer for startups to find software developers the fastest is coming around again and the offers are bigger. On Sunday, the 30th of October, 2011, Silicon Milkroundabout promises to bring together 100+ UK start-ups offering 500+ technical jobs for UK. To be held at The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London, it offers “exciting, viable, and altogether more rewarding career opportunities” for the junior and senior developers, software engineers, sysadmins, and QA specialists.

The record shop took to Twitter to say: "From next Tuesday, Rough Trade East will be the home of Andrew Ainsworth's stunning Stormtrooper range of replicas... [it is] incredibly exciting."
Rough Trade East can be found at the old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, where the pieces will be displayed from next week (Oct 3).

Shoe brand Clarks is putting sole into London music, having teamed up with Rough Trade Shops. Last weekend, Rough Trade East on Brick Lane played host to band Bo Ningen, four UK-based skinny Japanese guys calling themselves enlightenment activists, along with reggae from Trojan Sound System, a collective including Earl Gateshead, Daddy AD and a guest vocalist Jah Buck.

Illustrated People @ Urban Outfitters !! Hand-printed in their Truman Brewery workspace, Illustrated People is London’s very own home-grown design collective. Established in 2003, the brand is made up of creative illustrators based in the UK’s capital delivering classic screen prints, graphic motifs and customised designs that ensure each piece in the collection is a one-off.

The doors are closed, the consoles have been cleared away and the last flyers are being swept off the floor of Earls Court One. It's official: the Eurogamer Expo, the UK's biggest video games convention, is over for another year. Gamers who got tickets were in for a treat; the expo is a rare chance to talk to industry experts, meet the world's top games developers and, most importantly, get their hands on some top-tier unreleased titles.

Truman Brewerys LBi mark Christmas through core value of collaboration with Mobile Mobile, a massive sculpture made of re-cycled mobile phones that plays Choir of the Bells when you tweet it. You can also play the blighter live like a great big circular piano gizmo thing.
Mobile Mobile is a joyous seasonal story of upcycling* using old phones and collaboration.

Truman Brewery based designer Giles Deacon rocks London fashion week with his SS12 COLLECTION. It stands alone for its serenity and gracefulness,The feather details were reminiscent of Black Swan and Swan Lake and the dresses will not look out of place on the red carpet.

Brick Lane boho at Truman Brewerys cafe 1001. The boho and versatile venue opens at a very early 06:00 for breakfast and soups, jacket potatoes and sandwiches are on offer for lunch and dinner. Live music attracts a younger crowd with indie bands on Tuesday and jazz on Wednesday. Bands play in the smaller room at the back on Sunday and a dj spins tunes on Friday and Saturday.

Discover The Old Truman Brewery in The edgy East at brick Lane. Inside the old brewery, you’ll discover up-and-coming designers selling a unique variety of handbags, clothes and jewellery. There’s also a few vintage clothing stores and chic boutiques dotted around the area, which is a refreshing change from the usual high street entourage of clothing stores.

One of the effects of this patronage has been to allow designers to curate, rather than merely setting up stands for their wares as most of them are forced to do even in "cutting-edge" east London, where popular showcases such as Tent London and Designersblock charge their exhibitors.

Taking advantage of his adopted country's national obsession, French-born London-based designer Pierre Ospina has produced the cunning "Cricket Stool" from repurposed cricket bats; some of which stained, all of which given a colorful textile grip.

As mentioned earlier, In Bloom: The Nirvana Nevermind Exhibition has been on display in London for the past couple of weeks at The Loading Bay Gallery. The exhibit (which closes today) hosted a special event this past Thursday, featuring an album playback and a Q&A session.

Ignoring the much derided “Silicon Roundabout” name, the area around London’s Old Street in East London has been gaining a reputation for attracting some of the best technology start-ups in the world – and next month their “milkround” job fair is back – dubbed Silicon Milkroundabout.

The Intel - Remastered show at the Old Truman Brewery features interpretations of famous, historical works of art; and an opportunity to show the possibilities of technology – such as MadMapper, AfterAffects and, of course, Intel Core Processors – in the context of fine art.

In the mid-90s, the property’s landlord, Zeloof Partnership, began converting the 10-acre site from a depressed patch of vacant, derelict former brewery buildings, warehouses and yards into a thriving retail, dining, office, leisure and event space complex housing more than 250 businesses.

Intel Corporation today opens the doors to its unique art and technology exhibition at London Design Festival, "Remastered: A Visibly Smart Production from Intel". Blending classic art with the latest technology, artwork from Van Gogh to Da Vinci is re-imagined for a digital generation. The exhibition is open from 22nd - 25th September at East London's Old Truman Brewery, Shop 14.

Intel Corporation today opens the doors to its unique art and technology exhibition at London Design Festival, "Remastered: A Visibly Smart Production from Intel". Blending classic art with the latest technology, artwork from Van Gogh to Da Vinci is re-imagined for a digital generation. The exhibition is open from 22nd - 25th September at East London's Old Truman Brewery, Shop 14.

Tent London is a scary thought,’ admits knitted furniture designer Melanie Porter who has never before exhibited at a show. ‘It’s the first time I will stand in front of people to show off my product and see their faces.’ Opening today at the Old Truman Brewery in London’s East End, Tent London is one of the largest design trade shows taking place during this month’s London Design Festival.

Whilst their (excellent) debut LP The Fool was released in late 2010 (of which TheVine said was, "a slow burn in every sense, all shimmering melodies, slinking rhythms, and campfire harmonies,") the band's EP of the previous year, Exquisite Corpse, was actually recorded in 2007. Since then the group have been touring incessantly around the globe, and it's easy to now see the fruit of their labours. Videos like this series — from when the band went into their UK HQ Rough Trade recently, to record an arty mini-set for the cameras — are a pretty great reminder of the beguiling, fluid unit they've settled into. Also, I could watch bands in the studio for days. Days.

The "Amusement Washing Machine" designed by a Kingston University student is designed to make the tiresome chore of washing clothes a little more pleasant, as long as you don't suck at videogames.
The "Amusement Washing Machine" and other works by Kingston University students will be on display at Tent London, running from September 22 to 25 at the Old Truman Brewery.

(Arguably) everybody’s favourite ladies, the brilliant and spellbinding Warpaint recently recorded a series of songs in session for our country’s most dear record shop, Rough Trade (less easy to argue on that one).

Belgian design company Quinze & Milan will show a "creative reinterpretation of the new seven-seater" Chevy Orlando at the Superbrands London exhibition occurring September 22 to 25.
The Quinze & Milan Chevy Orlando will be on display at the Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane throughout Superbrands London.

Conceptual artist Maxence Parache has reimagined Henri Matisse's iconic image of five dancers holding hands in a circle -- entitled Dance -- in the latest offering from Intel's Remastered series.
The piece will appear this week at the Tent London showcase during London Design Festival, along with nine other pieces based on classics that have been reinterpreted by contemporary artists, coders and photographers.

This "exclusive avant-garde art car" will be on display at the SuperBrands London festival taking place at the Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane from September 22 to the 25.
Read more: http://www.worldcarfans.com/111092036745/bespoke-chevy-orlando-by-design-label-quinze--milan#ixzz1YVIxZdIf

Warpaint just released their "Rough Trade Sessions" videos, which are performances of four songs - three from The Fool and one from Exquisite Corpse EP. The Sessions were filmed live in East London by acclaimed video artists Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth. The songs included are 'Billie Holiday', 'Burgundy', 'Composure', and 'Majesty'.

Elsewhere designers take more wire for a walk, with outlines that are both colourful and curvy. Jan Plechac is a Czech bringing extravagant wire chairs to Tent London on Brick Lane, where, from Thursday, a mix of brands will fill the caverns of the Truman Brewery (tentlondon.co.uk; closes Sunday). Plechac's pleasures - playful and ironic - are the shapes of chairs that went before.

Car Scoop
The bespoke Orlando was created to celebrate Chevrolet’s centennial anniversary and will be shown the Superbrands London festival at the Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane from Sept 22nd to 25th.

The ‘In Bloom: The Nirvana Nevermind Exhibition’ in London, Brick Lane, is running until September 25th at The Loading Bay Gallery and will feature all sorts of memorabilia, fan additions and rarely seen photography amongst other fan favourites, including a hoodie worn by the late Kurt Cobain.

GO EAST FOR SLOVENIA
Slovenia is the country of choice for the thrifty manufacturing of contemporary furniture. Less well known is that it has its own thriving design scene, turning out some excellent contemporary ideas. This year Slovenia is taking up residence at Tent, the East End interiors event in and around the Truman Brewery, and exhibiting 25 product designs from recent years.

The following Hothouse participants will be exhibiting at London Design Festival; Jasmin Giles, Emma Bradbury and Sarah Warsop at Origin: the Contemporary Craft Fair, Old Spitalfields Market, and Anna Glassbrook, Ellen Thomas and Tortie Hoare at Tent London, Old Truman Brewery.

Meanwhile at the Truman Brewery, Tent’s globe-trotting spread of designs includes futuristic flat-pack seating from Oyadica, Japan; concrete benches from Ivanka, Budapest; a new take on tables from Nobody & Co, Milan; and furniture, lighting and home accessory launches from Denmark, France, Cyprus and Singapore.

Truman Brewery based PR agency 'Canoe' are handed brief to promote 2012 London Marathon charities. Canoe won the brief following a three-way pitch and will cover all aspects of PR, as well as a digital and creative programme.

Truman Brewery's very talented creative studio 'Jackdaw' were asked by MOTHER to re-home their art department in a practical way that was still in keeping with the bold style of the agency, therefore producing an eye popping swimming pool length work station.

Nirvana's Nevermind: 20 years on – in pictures
To mark the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind, an exhibition of photos and memorabilia titled In Bloom is showing at the Loading Bay Gallery in Brick Lane, east London.

The Idea Generation Gallery and Universal joined forces to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Nevermind with a major exhibition, In Bloom, featuring unseen photographs, footage and memorabilia at the Loading Bay gallery, just off Brick lane.

They're designed and made in Sweden by Ary, a company that has been going since the 1950s. See them at Tent at London's Old Truman Brewery, or buy them from Liberty, Fortnum & Mason, Homer in Edinburgh, or online at Hus & Hem. Prices start at £6 for a mini tray, and £250 for a chair

'Nevermind', the two-disc Super Deluxe Edition, is released on 26 September. 'In Bloom: The Nirvana Nevermind Exhibition', a display of Nirvana memorabilia, opens at the Loading Bay Gallery in London, E1 on 13 September

Two major attractions from last year return: the festival-within-festival called Tent London, which emphasizes workmanship, hand-crafted furniture, lighting and textiles, returns to the Old Truman Brewery

TENT London is one of the hottest events in the calendar. If you’re looking for a variety of wallpaper ideas to decorate your home, Flavor Paper are displaying plenty of hand screened and digital wallpapers in their Flavor booth for the first time ever in the UK so take a look for some creative ideas.

Twenty years later we’re still talking about it and to celebrate the anniversary the Loading Bay Gallery is hosting an exhibition to highlight the relationship the Seattle three-piece had with its British fan base. The opening night will see a set by reggae-legend Little Roy, who’s just completed an album of Nirvana covers - Battle for Seattle - further showing the effect that the band had, not only on teenage grunge, but across an entire generation.

The ticketed daytime exhibition, held at the Truman Brewery on Friday 21 October (1.00pm -6.00pm) and Saturday 22 October (11.00am -6.00pm), is a spectacular display by Britain’s most talented and pioneering gourmet artists including butter sculptors, sonic food artists, food magicians, cake artists, food futurologists, conceptual food artists and food model-makers to name a few.

In Bloom: The Nirvana Nevermind Exhibition is set to open in London on September 13 at The Loading Bay Gallery on Brick Lane.
The exhibition will celebrate the 20th anniversary of 'Nevermind' and highlight the relationship between the band and their UK fans. It will include a host of memorabilia, including a hoodie worn by Kurt Cobain for a Melody Maker photoshoot and a piece of fretboard from one of his guitars.

Tent London was to host a dramatic pop up cafe & bar pavilion designed by award-winning London design studio, Vonsung. From 23-26 September 2010, visitors to Tent London had the opportunity to experience Vonsung’s striking pop-up cafe & bar. Commissioned by Tent London the pavilion provided a unique dining and bar space for the duration of the event.

Design Island arrives in TENT LONDON in September to breathe new interest in Irish Design with a group of 12 designer makers of lighting, furniture, glass, textiles and rugs in what will be the largest show of Irish Design in London ever. The group is a network of leading designers who produce primarily interiors products and in one case Omos street furniture for contract markets.

Both the London Transport Museum and upholsterer Squint Limited have featured in these pages before. Now they have come together to collaborate on a range of bespoke modern furniture that draws on the rich design heritage of the museum's collection.
The collection will be unveiled during the London Design Festival at Tent London where visitors to the stand will have the chance to win themselves a unique Moquette Chair.

Truman Brewery Based radio station 'Rinse FM' who are behind Dizzee Rascal and Katy B, keeps it salty !!
Former London pirate has come a long way since it used to broadcast from founder Geeneus's living room. But, he says, "none of the DJs can sit safe"

Dancehall in the east...
During Carnival, the streets of west London are shaking with the sounds of dancehall. But on September 24 the energy will be heading east to the Old Truman Brewery when Trojan Sound System and Bo Ningen perform at Rough Trade East as part of the Clarks Originals music series.

Truman Brewery's 'Double H Agency' would like to introduce the new fashionable and stylish French brand 'Redskins'. Founded in 1984 by Michel Szynckier, Redskins proposes several leather and textile collections for both men and women every year. It has 1200 retailers, its very own network of shops in its own name and has many licences.

A new series of large-scale paintings from Kirsty Whiten, depicting moments of family intimacy set in a psychedelic forest, are set to go on show at StolenSpace Gallery at The Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, London.

A DESIGN collective co-founded by Liverpool designer Ilsa Parry is preparing to exhibit at this year’s London Design Week.
The collective, which now has an international membership, will have a stand at the Tent London show in East London’s Truman Brewery next month.

The area around Brick Lane, The Old Truman Brewery and Spitalfields in East London are one of my (although I have many) favourite parts in the city. It’s vibrant, quirky and very different from some other areas, e.g. around London’s West End.

Truman Brewery based creative agency 'B3' partner with childrens charity 'PIGGY BANK KIDS' to help raise funds. Managing Director James Marsh: “B3 Creative produces great work for children, so when we decided to work with a charity, obviously we wanted it to be a great children's charity. And we found it in PiggyBankKids. It’s a wonderful feeling to partner PBK, knowing that what we do will, thanks to PBK’s efforts, save young lives.”

Truman Brewery fashion showroom 'Brand Progression' introduce Fracap boots; a new edition to our brand portfolio for the next season, we can’t wait to get these hard to source, Italian crafted boots into the showroom for Aw11 orders!

East London's Photomonth (photomonth.org) returns for its 10th year in October, taking over venues such as the Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane and station platforms along the new East London Line for its annual celebration of photography.

The Kirin Ichiban Yatai is around for just one week from 3-8 August in the open-air Dray Walk gallery near Brick Lane and is serving up a selection of the traditional Japanese pankoed and deep-fried skewer snacks.

Yasuhiro Mineno and Shinya Ikeda create a week-long pop up in east London this week (3-8 August) to give Londoners a preview of this style of cooking, as part of the Kirin First Cut short film competition.

Taking place in the iconic Boiler House at the Old Truman Brewery, as part of Tent London, the participants will include Moroso, Bang & Olufsen, Bulo, Quinze & Milan, Valcucine, Erba Italia, Acerbis International, Environment and Prooff.

Tesco has partnered with recipe sharing website MyDish.co.uk to champion British family meals. The Truman Brewery based company have gone from strength to strength since their appearence on the popular tv show Dragons Den.

Truman Brewery's Super sharp shooter DJ Zinc can do no wrong. Bass is his place and it doesn't matter if it jumps up or down.
Watch his live performance at the 2011 Red Bull academy radio Sonar event in Barcelona.

Rental prices have shot through the roof, more so in the Shoreditch, Bethnal Green and Victoria Park regions and Brick Lane, once only famous for its curries, is now also known for its fashion shows, warehouse parties and art spaces.

SHOWstudio Goes North, via Free Range.
A small SHOWstudio contingent journeyed east to the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane Thursday night for the opening of Free Range, the creative graduate showcase.

Truman Brewery Tenant 'Imaginox Academy of Creative Arts' and the prestigious School of Sound have formed a long-term alliance to co-develop an array of innovative, cutting-edge new content, spanning both sound and the visual medium.

Jamie Oliver Invites You to Britain and Shares his Favorite Places:
In recent years Brick Lane has become popular with fashion and art students – the enormous Sunday market at Spitalfields spills over into Brick Lane, and the Old Truman Brewery is now an office and entertainment complex.

All these ludicrously perilous exploits are obviously the reason behind not one, but two blogs focussing loosely on street art this week, with the next on our danger schedule opening tomorrow at East London’s Stolen Space gallery at The Old Truman Brewery.

One notable is the pink car by the mysterious street artist Banksy that sits in the square at the Old Truman Brewery. In the square you will find a treasure trove of street art. This square also houses fashion and music shops, hairdressers, street fashion culture, and the StolenSpace gallery.

Street artists Ben Slow and Fin Dac collaborated on this gorgeous mural for the Cannt Festival in London. To create the piece, the artists used stencils, spray paint, charcoal, ink, and acrylic to beautify the 7 x 6 ft wall on Brick Lane’s Old Truman Brewery, a revolutionary arts and media quarter.

The New Blood festival opened last night in the Truman Brewery in London's Shoreditch. The D&AD event gives colleges the chance to showcase their best digital advertising, design and creative students.

Truman Brewery Tenants LBi launch first Cannt Festival.
Whilst Creative Directors from across the industry head to Cannes Lions this month, top London agencies, including LBi,Truman brewery's Wieden + Kennedy, Mother, Poke, Skive, Soup, Rehab Studio, Plan B Studio, AMV BBDO and many more , invite everyone that isn’t going to Cannes to the Cannt Festival; a week-long celebration of creativity hosted at venues across East London from 19th – 24th June.

Since it’s arrival in London 2002 the BAPE STORE LONDON® has only once before offered any items at discount prices. The store will open for nine days only, and as such is likely to be hugely popular, drawing large crowds in search of exclusive BAPE treasure.
Taking place between Saturday 2nd and Sunday 10th JULY at the Old Truman Brewery, 25 Hanbury Street

Truman Brewery's Internationally renowned Design Agency: Edson Williams gives an insightful interview to Designers Couch about their unique ability for bringing various aspects of design together like no other. The agency’s clients include Swarovski, Saks 5th Avenue, Nike and Porsche.

Opening next weekend at StolenSpace Gallery in London is their annual Summer Group Show. The gallery, known initially for their importance to the in the street art genre, has begun to break free of this mold and expand their programming as of late.

Truman Brewery based Artist management Agent Samantha Teasdale of Punishment Ltd opens a fabulous new hair salon 'BLEACH LONDON;' with Alex Brownsell - its been named one of the Hottest salons in the city with clients such as Pixie Geldof, Jaime Winstone and Sky Ferreira to name a few.

Art Wednesday teamed up with CSM BA Graphic Designer graduate extraordinaire MARGOT BOWMAN to create something a little special to celebrate the huge pool of talent that’s on show at FREE RANGE in the Truman Brewery

The large-scale, silkscreened images featured within the exhibit will also be accompanied by a limited-edition A3 boxset that contains five letter-pressed images from the show and a short story, entitled “The Gardener,” that was written by author David Mitchell exclusively for this project.

Tent London the exhibition is widely regarded as the most diverse and respected international design event of the London Design Festival attracting over 19,000 visitors to its venue in the Old Truman Brewery.

Falmouth’s graduate show, held at The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London, opened with a private viewing evening sponsored by Alvanon that attracted over 200 guests and included such influential names as Adidas, Uniqlo and I-D Magazine.

Free Range has established itself as the authoritative identifier for tomorrow’s best young creative talent. In addition to the highly successful ‘Fashion’ category launched last year, a new ‘Motion Arts’ exhibition is introduced.

The Truman Brewery Complex just off Brick Lane is a haven for cool and alternative east-end hipsters. With record shops, fixed wheel bicycle shops, galleries, eco & small designer fashion retail and bars it buzzes with creative energy.

During an interview with John Mansell,Truman Brewery resident producer Dominik Scherrer of Crimson Noise talks about his award winning score and theme for the Miss Marple series with Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie, the sci-fi hit series Primeval, the comedy Scenes of a Sexual Nature starring Ewan McGregor and the apocalyptic Nine Lives of Tomas Katz, amongst many others.

Kai & Sunny has sparked some excitement around the Design Week office. Entitled ‘The Flower Show’, this is their third solo show at the Stolen Space gallery at The Old Truman Brewery and looks set to impress.

East London based Film producers 'Link Productions' who are residents of The Old Truman Brewery start work on developing a feature length version of their award winning short film 'THE ENDS' which won the prestigious Raindance Film Festival Big Issue Best Film Award in 2005.

Truman Brewery based social network creator Carol Savage founder of MyDish.co.uk, a recipe sharing website will appear at a Networking Breakfast event to talk about the journey in starting an online business, raising cash and pitching on Dragons Den.

Thursday 23 Jun 2011
Time: 7:15 am
See website for further details and and tickets.

The 'UK's biggest pub photography competition' featured 6 categories, ranging from 'The Regulars' to 'Strange But True' and the winners and shortlisted entries are now on show in an exhibition at Old Truman Brewery.

Alessandro Botto Presents a Solo Show At The Old Truman Brewery in London.

London-based artist Alessandro Botto is presenting a solo exhibition at the Old Truman Brewery in London until June 7th, under the title "Flux". “Flux” is an exhibition of large-scale paintings, drawings and a video installation by artist Alessandro Botto, one of the UK’s most progressive artists as well as being widely considered as one of the most dynamic.

We’re back with our crew at Hit+Run and Kutmah at Rough Trade East as Kootz releases the second mixtape in the New Error series, a day before his Los Angeles opening for Two Soups And A Honeybun, following the London launch we produced back in January.

I was delighted that many of the 35 artists who will be exhibiting in this year’s Oxford Brookes University Fine Art Degree Show were inspired by science and mathematics. Their curiosity about ideas and technologies often produces a stunning visual image.
visit Free Range in the Truman Gallery, in the Old Brewery, in Brick Lane, London, in July, where many of them will be exhibiting.

Kennedy eventually traded her raver ways for work at a contemporary art gallery, but in 1996, a chance encounter with über-eccentric London art world fixture and former boyfriend Ofer Zeloof would kick Fashion East into action. Zeloof hired Kennedy on the spot to help him convert the Old Truman Brewery, an 11-acre block of buildings on Brick Lane, into studios and warehouse spaces for artists and fashion designers. "It happened quite organically," Kennedy recalls.

Keeping us dancing all night long was DJ Peaches Geldof along with host and supermodel Lara Stone. Lara is currently the face of Calvin Klein, who has been busy with their pop-up show at the Old Truman Brewery.

One of the most delightful events to satiate our need for good clean fun is the art-meets-design-meets-fashion-creative bonanza that is Free Range. Now in its eleventh year, Free Range has garnered an east London following that has heightened the eight-week event into a must-see for the ever-hungry creative mafia.

A stranger collection of oddities and curios gathered together you’ll rarely find as those currently exhibited at the HRL Contemporary’s show in London. As it’s title, The Nature of Change: Hybridity and Mutation, suggests, the exhibition by 13 modern artists nestling unexpectedly in a bleak, whitewashed-concrete space in the shadow of Christ Church Spitalfields, is made up of varied exercises in metamorphosis

A chance to help a worthy charity and mingle with coffee lovers from around the capital, that’s a day well spent.
The London Coffee Festival takes place 8-10 April at the Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane E1.

Coffee Week will finish with a two-day festival, in the Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London. Highlights will include a coffee trade fair, an attempt at a Guinness World Record for the most espressos made in an hour, and live music.

THE CAREER OF Simone Rocha, one of a rising generation of new fashion stars, has taken off with dizzying speed in the past 12 months. “For a 22-year-old MA graduate to get to show in London with Fashion East on the official calendar and then to go to Paris, has been fantastic,” she says when we meet during Paris Fashion Week.

At noon on Monday, the record will be launched at a special event in London. where a free newspaper created by the band called the Universal Sigh will be handed out to fans. The event will take place at the Truman Brewery on Dray Walk, London, E1 6QL,

The 2011 Art Car Boot Fair is already revving up to be a classic day of cool art and frivolous entertainments with over 70 pitches, special on-car and in-car art commissions, live DJ’s,bands, promenade performances, ox-heart buns, chilled drinks and a multitude of art wares spilling out of car boots - this is the Summer art event not to be missed!

This year Tent drew a massive 19,000 visitors from 44 different countries to the Old Truman Brewery and the event buzzed with activity as professionals from the international design community came to do business with the world’s leading design innovators.

In the previous month Eleanor also claimed top prize in The World Photography Organisation's Photomonth Youth award when her finalist photographs were shown, at the photomonth photo-open exhibition in Old Truman Brewery.

The Photolounge was open at the Old Truman Bewery for a few days as part of East London’s Photomonth, so I took a look. The Old Truman Brewery at the north end of Brick Lane about 10 minutes walk from Liverpool Street station. There are lots of retail opportunities but above ground level there is lots of space available for exhibitions.

Labelled "Europe’s largest graduate art and design show", Free Range has become a juggernaut of the art world.
Unconstrained by county borders the exhibition has grown into a national artists’ debutante ball.

Another academic year goes by so giving us another cohort of imaginative graduates, bubbling with fresh ideas and imagination. Tap into this young optimism by visiting Free Range, an annual exhibition held in the creative hub of the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane. After 10 years Free Range is being identified as the best place to spot the latest trends and newest talents

This summer, the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane becomes a place where future artists can reveal their talent. Dedicated to photography, the second week of Free Range Art and Design Show was a mash of styles, themes and techniques. Here are Dont Panics picks of the latest show!

The annual Free Range Art and Design Show kicked off last week with a stunning fashion show put on by students from art and design courses all across the country. The quality of work was genuinely outstanding making for a high calibre, classy fashion affair.

What happens when Europe's biggest graduate show does fashion..
We popped down to the opening of Europe’s largest graduate exhibition Free Range in Brick Lane last night and guess what? It was more immense than ever.

All through June and July we'll be keeping our eye on the Free Range Art and Design Show for the very best in graduate talent. It takes place annually and provides a brilliant platform for the next crop of creatives to showcase their work.

Free Range presents the work of thousands of graduates from art and design universities around the UK, in several distinct categories over 8 weeks. The event takes place in the Old Truman Brewery in London’s East End.

Free Range launches Fashion Week. As part of its 10th anniversary celebrations, Free Range, an Old Truman Brewery project supporting new graduate artists and designers, announces a new fashion category with 3 days of graduate fashion shows.

Time Out
Surprises include being able to choose between three flavours of miso soup, even shiitake; spinach goma-ae and own-made pickled daikon slivers with lemon zest; and beverages ranging from Coke to Calpico

East London Advertiser
Top labels up for grabs at Designer Sales UK being held today (Sat) and tomorrow at the Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane include Allegra Hicks, Vivienne Westwood, Galliano and Dior for men as well as women.